| 释义 |
pontinal, a. (n.) Ichthyol.|ˈpɒntɪnəl|
[f. as next + -al1.]
Name for a special bone in the skull of dactylopteroid fishes: see quot.
1888Gill in Amer. Nat. XXII. 358 The third developed as a small special bone (pontinal) bridging the interval between the second suborbital and the antero-inferior angle of the preoperculum. |